Just Like Home
Just Like Home is a play by Pieter-Dirk Uys (1945-).
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The original text
The play is about the victims of South African racism building a life for themselves in the sanctuary of London.
Uys won the 1990 Amstel Playwright of the Year Award for this play.
Published in South African Plays by Nick Hern Books, 1993.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1989: First performance of this play in the Laager of the Market Theatre on Tuesday 7 March 1989 starring Shaleen Surtee-Richards, Russell Copley, Farouk Valley-Omar and Soli Philander.
1989: That production presented by P.D. Uys Productions and B.M.E. at the Grahamstown Festival 9-11 July 1989;
1989: Presented in the PEMADS Ford Little Theatre, Port Elizabeth, 13-15 July 1989;
1989: Presented at the Baxter Studio, Cape Town, 18 July-5 August directed by Pieter-Dirk Uys with Shaleen Surtee-Richards, Robert Finlayson, Royston Stoffels and Paul Savage. Designer Sarah Roberts.
1990: Political events in 1990 resulted in script changes with references to the "New South Africa". This adapted version was staged at the Edinburgh Festival and at the King's Head in in London, the Market Theatre and in June at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre, directed by Lynne Maree, with Shaleen Surtie-Richards, Russell Copley, Kurt Egelhof and Soli Philander.
Sources
Just Like Home theatre programmes, 1989.
Photocopy of the Just Like Home programme, quotes from reviews and text, held in the archives of the Drama Department of the University of Stellenbosch.
Die Burger, 9 March 1990.
Sunday Tribune, 2 May 1990.
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